Jottings from the Granite Studio

Fascinating essay in the Boston Globe’s “Ideas” section this past Sunday written by Yale Professor Anthony Kronman. Professor Kronman argues that American universities have given up on teaching the big, fundamental questions to their students in favor of specialized, practical, subject-based curriculum in increasing vogue over the past century. What is the meaning of life [...]

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With all of the musicians out there Daoist or Buddhist influences to their music, where’s the love for the C-Man?…The brilliant (and it would appear slightly twisted) mind of Sam Crane at The Useless Tree has placed Linkin Park frontman Mike Shinoda (A.k.a. Fort Minor) into the Confucian pantheon. It’s a song made famous by [...]

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